Code Enforcement

The Development Department will be closed from 4pm to 5pm on Wednesday's and Friday's from November 11, 2015 thru  January 1, 2016

Mission

"To protect the health, safety, and welfare of DeSoto County residents through education, cooperation, and compliance"  

• New Foreclosure Registry ordinance link

• Foreclosure Registry Form

Residents increasingly expect mobile access to local government, and we wanted to offer you a simple way to tap right into our agency and quickly submit a request while on the go. GORequest Mobile application is completely integrated with our Code Enforcement complaint tracking solution, making it easy for you to submit , track and stay updated on the issues you report.

You are now able to submit request to us @ http://user.govoutreach.com/desotoco/            

Download the GoRequest App:         

Benefits for residents:

• Easily report issues like, abandoned vehicles, overgrown grass, development without permits or any unsafe issues.

• GPS and camera features built into the mobile devices make it simple for residents to send us a photo and location of the issue

• Easy for residents to check the status of issues reported.

• Issues go directly into the GORequest customer service system and are automatically delivered to the right staff member

Residents can easily submit an issue on the go

• A picture is worth a thousand words – with GORequest Mobile, a photo and GPS coordinates allow us to efficiently find and fix issues.

•  Around the clock service through the iPhone, Android phone, any smartphone, web, email, and phone – improving our service

Code Enforcement is that branch of the local governing body responsible for the enforcement of that body’s Civil Codes and Ordinances. Codes and Ordinances have been adopted over the years to protect the health, safety and welfare of all    residents and to establish a standards to ensure a positive effect on property value, community appearance and neighborhood pride.

Responsibilities:

►To protect, promote and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the county and municipalities of the state

►To impose administrative fines and other non-criminal penalties to provide equitable, expeditious, effective and inexpensive methods of enforcing any codes and ordinances in force in the county and municipalities, where a pending or repeated violation continues to exist

►Provides an effective means of enforcing the Code of Ordinances and the Land Development Regulations,  ensuring that our communities age gracefully

• DeSoto County LDRs _ Effective: 7-2-12 rev May 26, 2016
• DeSoto County Engineering Standard Details Revised: March 24, 2016
• Local Business Tax Information guide and application form

Additional Department Pages

• GIS (geographic information system)
• Online Complaint page